What Atlas holds for Cameroon
Source: the Atlas database, updated automatically.
The official records
Cameroon's primary corporate registry is the Registre du Commerce et du Crédit Mobilier (RCCM), operated under the OHADA Uniform Act that harmonises commercial law across 17 mostly francophone African states. Registrations are filed through regional Centres de Formalités de Création d'Entreprises (CFCE) and, increasingly, the MyBusiness.cm online portal; every commercial entity carries an RCCM number tied to the regional court that holds its file. Company formation clusters around Douala, the port and economic capital, and the political capital Yaoundé, with cocoa, coffee, timber, oil and a fast-growing services sector driving new entries.
A very large share of activity sits in micro-enterprises and the informal economy that never reach a tidy global profile, and RCCM data is fragmented across regional registries rather than a single national feed. Newly registered firms and Douala-based exporters therefore appear in Cameroonian sources long before any bought list catches up.
How to use the register
- Start from the register, not from a bought list. It is the legal record of every company.
- Read the status field. Registers keep closed companies too. See how many have closed in other registers.
- Check the website belongs to the company, with the registration number or a distinguishing name on the page.
Sources
Descriptions are based on the national sources above. Figures in the text are rounded and change over time. Found an error? Write to atlasforgex@proton.me. More countries: business data by country and registers by country.